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« on: May 09, 2008, 01:34:44 AM »

You guys aren't making this easy.

I've banned a truckload of spambots from all of my sites.  No, not spiders: SPAM BOTS.  The only spider I killed off was this music playlist one because I did a favor for someone one day and hosted a song, and that idiot put it on their playlist.  That playlist site... still thinks it's here and I was still getting server errors - months and months later - every time someone loaded up a myspace profile or whatever.  Never again, I can tell you that.

Anyway, I have blocked myspace and any site with the word "playlist" in it as a referrer.   I've furthermore blocked every one trying to access an mp3 that wasn't already browsing my site.

I've created a couple of error pages so that I can stop seeing the "file does not exist" error when referencing those error pages.  And to hopefully keep them from being needed at all, I've put in a few redirects that should keep their display to a bare minimum.

The e-mail thing... after an additional upgrade to cPanel... still does not work consistently.  Failed again at the end of the business day yesterday... a short window wherein 4 spam messages got BoxTrapped.  So... still no answer to that one.  At least SpamAssassin is worthless for a lot shorter period of a time during a 24 hour period than it used to be.  I'd swap hosts, but everyone is having this problem.  I wish someone was working on a real world solution instead of saying "submit a ticket!"  Because my hosts have obviously submitted a ticket, and this "upgrade" was obviously the solution, and your shit still doesn't work.

The only thing more frustrating than contacting technical support is when that department has to contact technical support.
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